ArticleScientific reports2018
Extremely Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields impair the Cognitive and Motor Abilities of Honey Bees.
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- Weak anthropogenic electric fields affect honeybee foraging.iScience · 2025Article
- Anthropogenic electromagnetic radiation alters the transcription levels of the genes encoding the SIFamide and myoinhibitory peptide and their receptors in Ixodes ricinus synganglion.Parasitology research · 2024Article
- Metabolism gene expression in worker honey bees after exposure to 50Hz electric field - semi-field analysis.Frontiers in zoology · 2024Article
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- Accuracy vs. Energy: An Assessment of Bee Object Inference in Videos from On-Hive Video Loggers with YOLOv3, YOLOv4-Tiny, and YOLOv7-Tiny.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Electromagnetic fields disrupt the pollination service by honeybees.Science advances · 2023Article
- Acoustic activity of bats at power lines correlates with relative humidity: a potential role for corona discharges.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Ambient Electromagnetic Radiation as a Predictor of Honey Bee (Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Extremely Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Field Impairs the Development of Honeybee (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Exposure to Magnetic Fields Changes the Behavioral Pattern in Honeybees (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Low-level EMF effects on wildlife and plants: What research tells us about an ecosystem approach.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Feelings of Knowing - Fundamental Interoceptive Patterns (FoK-FIP): a magnetic monopole-like "pure mental" process fundamental to subjective feelings and self-awareness.Communicative & integrative biology · 2022Article
- Honey Bee Proteolytic System and Behavior Parameters under the Influence of an Electric Field at 50 Hz and Variable Intensities for a Long Exposure Time.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Changes in Honeybee Behavior Parameters under the Influence of the E-Field at 50 Hz and Variable Intensity.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Effect of the electric field at 50 Hz and variable intensities on biochemical markers in the honey bee's hemolymph.PloS one · 2021Article
- Increased aggression and reduced aversive learning in honey bees exposed to extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields.PloS one · 2019Article
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Abstract
Extremely low frequency electromagnetic field (ELF EMF) pollution from overhead powerlines is known to cause biological effects across many phyla, but these effects are poorly understood. Honey bees are important pollinators across the globe and due to their foraging flights are exposed to relatively high levels of ELF EMF in proximity to powerlines. Here we ask how acute exposure to 50 Hz ELF EMFs at levels ranging from 20-100 µT, found at ground level below powerline conductors, to 1000-7000 µT, found within 1 m of the conductors, affects honey bee olfactory learning, flight, foraging activity and feeding. ELF EMF exposure was found to reduce learning, alter flight dynamics, reduce the success of foraging flights towards food sources, and feeding. The results suggest that 50 Hz ELF EMFs emitted from powerlines may represent a prominent environmental stressor for honey bees, with the potential to impact on their cognitive and motor abilities, which could in turn reduce their ability to pollinate crops.
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